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Monday, January 11, 2010

Best Tries of the Top 14 - Round 17

Round 17 of the Top 14 produced a few great tries, some of which are featured in this edition of the Best Tries of the Top 14.

Castres continued their fine form as they beat Albi comfortably, with Joe Tekori scoring a nice try as he ran from about the halfway line before bashing aside a hapless defender. Cameron Mcintyre also crossed for a fine try, following a great build up by Phil Christophers.

Racing Metro's winning streak came to an end at the hands of Bourgoin, who beat them 18-17 despite Jonny Leo scoring a nice try after some good handling. Lock Camille Levast then scored for Bourgoin after some nice hands by his fellow forwards.

Iain Balshaw scored for Biarritz as they beat Montpellier 26-10, showing once again that the move to France has reinvigorated him as a player.

The top try on this list is handed to Alexis Palisson for Brive as they thumped reigning champions Perpignan 29-9.

We aren't able to get these clips for you always, so please bear in mind that if you yourself are able to watch, edit and upload, then your contributions are welcomed with open arms.

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Time: 04:38

Meh, they weren't too impressive. the last one was good though!

By Mike, at January 11, 2010 10:53 pm
SECOND!!!

By Anonymous, at January 11, 2010 11:27 pm
Like the commentator says: Number 1 was magnificant. The order of the rest was a bit questionable though.

By Teza04, at January 11, 2010 11:44 pm
Oooo, listen to how the french tongues curve words into art. Goose bumps! XD

By Gareth Thomas, at January 12, 2010 12:49 am
nice tries. keep'em coming, french and RD!

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 3:00 am
Get rid of the Poker garbage please, it's beyond annoying. Don't get greedy.

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 4:33 am
yawn

By brett, at January 12, 2010 8:22 am
you'll get used to the poker crap. i don't think its greedy. the lads have a great site here, which clearly takes up a lot of their time. Not too many ways to monetize sites like this so if it means a bloody poker backdrop and a few google ads to keep the vids coming i can live with it.

By gar, at January 12, 2010 9:13 am
you'll get used to the poker crap. i don't think its greedy. the lads have a great site here, which clearly takes up a lot of their time. Not too many ways to monetize sites like this so if it means a bloody poker backdrop and a few google ads to keep the vids coming i can live with it.

By gar, at January 12, 2010 9:13 am
^^^^ Totally agree. Stop moaning about everything.

And stop the stupid jokes about Gareth Thomas, it's childish and not funny.

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 9:42 am
The poker background looks better than the last anyway.

Imo as a graphic designer

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 9:45 am
^ shut up

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 10:19 am
^ Tell your mum to suck out

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 10:30 am
This place is starting to look like an early 1990s warez site.

Ad jumble.

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 10:33 am
The ads are non intrusive so i dont know what you lot are complaining about, the pokerstars ad isnt clickable so no-one is going to accidentally click it and be navigated away from RD. It certaintly doesnt detract from the videos, every site as big as RD needs to advertise. Do you really think these guys are going to give up so much of their time for free?!?!

By Rich, at January 12, 2010 10:39 am
the best championship!!

By dezzy, at January 12, 2010 10:47 am
Christophers is still a quality Act! Good to see him recover from his knee injury!

By Anonymous, at January 12, 2010 12:11 pm
that #1 try by brive's alexis palisson is brilliant backline play !!

By luxi, at January 12, 2010 1:21 pm
Anonymous said...Get rid of the Poker garbage please, it's beyond annoying. Don't get greedy.

You're the greedy one, you want something great for nothing and then resent the people doing all the work for getting a little return.
A few ads are no problem RD if it keeps the rugby vids coming.

By roland, at January 12, 2010 2:07 pm
Love it. Top rugby.

By Andy, at January 12, 2010 2:19 pm
Christophers, Flutey and even Balshaw all looking good in this video.

Perhaps the answer to Englands woes is to send all their players to France for a decent rugby education.

By The, at January 12, 2010 3:03 pm
^ Gotta love that comment

By Oli, at January 12, 2010 3:59 pm
^ in the words of Metallica, sad but true.

By Phil, at January 12, 2010 5:08 pm
people sya the french play good rugby no the foreign players in france play good rugby, not many french players in that top 10

By geordie, at January 12, 2010 7:42 pm
I didn't even recognise Balshaw in that vid! He's obviously been hitting the gym.

By Kev, at January 12, 2010 7:58 pm
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By Oli, at January 12, 2010 10:10 pm
No. 7

By T, at January 13, 2010 12:01 am
Hahaha best food and most beautiful country, what a retarded and childish comment - Ohhhh zing!!! Hahahaha you really got him there oli!!!!

By brett, at January 13, 2010 12:03 am
Don't worry for the amount of foreign players in our championship, a couple of (not so) new rules are on the way to limit their number and help young French players play. You won't have to wait long for seeing "your" players back.
They helped the competition a lot though cos the top14 is really really tough now. No team is clearly ahead of the others and each side is very difficult to win.
I think the level of the championship unfortunately prevents our top teams from playing their best during the ERC, they seem to start enjoying the ERC once their national goal is reached (cynically it is often being... European, or on the tracks for the quarters, or sure of not being relegated). Add to this the 6N being played while the top14 is going on, you can understand why it's difficult even for the biggest squads.
Playing at this time of year can explain the relatively poor level of the tries: temperature is 0°C and the pitches are frozen.

By Maximus, at January 13, 2010 1:26 am
The Last...
Good!!!!

By Unknown, at January 13, 2010 1:43 am
Roland ya hippo, unlike you I can live without this site. All the rugby I want to see airs on television.

I'm just saying, the poker ads are a. obnoxious and b. the page takes a couple seconds longer to load up.

PS: I never click on ads. In fact, if one advert does interest me, I'd rather Google it/the product, so a site (not necessarily this one) doesn't get money. 'Cause I'm selfish like that.

By Anonymous, at January 13, 2010 2:07 am
Nice guy ^

Does this site have spyware?

By Lance, at January 13, 2010 2:13 am
Anonymous said... Roland ya hippo, unlike you I can live without this site. All the rugby I want to see airs on television.

Then go away, ya dork.

By hippo, at January 13, 2010 7:19 am
...if only Biarritz could've played like that against Stade Francais. Whoever said Yachvili was better than Elissalde needs to rethink what it means to be a good scrumhalf. Having a ten minute tea party before getting the ball out of every ruck is no way to win a match.

Unfortunately, Stade won out through Beauxis' dead-aim boot. I really hope Michalak's days as a fly-half for France are numbered - he is about as unreliable at kicking penalties as Jonny Wilkinson is at not getting injured.

By flapjack, at January 13, 2010 8:36 am
"Roland ya hippo, unlike you I can live without this site. All the rugby I want to see airs on television."

"Then go away, ya dork."

I agree; what a twat. Some of us can't see rugby on television, being as we don't live in a major rugby nation.

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.rugbydump.com

The site makes some $25-30 a day. I would hardly call trying to make some more money from all the effort put into keeping the site going being "greedy". I don't necessarily like the Pokerstars background, but who the hell am I to complain?

By flapjack, at January 13, 2010 8:43 am
I got to agree with Brett, OLI your comment is really pathetic and embarassing. So please shut up, stop embarassing your countrymen.

And Geordie, people say the French play good rugby because actually they really play good rugby! And that's why France is 5th in the IRB rank! If they played bad they'd be 6th like England or 8th like Wales for example... And half of the tries in this clip are scored by french players...

So finally your comment really shows how frustrated and jealous you are of not having in your contry such an exciting championship as the Top14 can be!

By Anonymous, at January 13, 2010 4:39 pm
I got to agree with Brett, OLI your comment is really pathetic and embarassing. So please shut up, stop embarassing your countrymen.

And Geordie, people say the French play good rugby because actually they really play good rugby! And that's why France is 5th in the IRB rank! If they played bad they'd be 6th like England or 8th like Wales for example... And half of the tries in this clip are scored by french players...

So finally your comment really shows how frustrated and jealous you are of not having in your contry such an exciting championship as the Top14 can be!

By Rodofle, at January 13, 2010 4:40 pm
totally agree with you about Yach. Michalak could be good at fly-half though IF and only IF you put a reliable kicker in the team (let's say... Elissalde for example!) because Michalak gives pace and adds uncertainty to the game. Unfortunately for him, his ability to play fast and to feel the game entirely depends on the way he succeeds in kicking, so...

btw, Yachvili could invite Cusiter to his tea parties. I've always wondered how Cusiter manages to pass: grab the ball, step, prepare the pass aaand send a text message and pass.

By Maximus, at January 13, 2010 4:46 pm
flapjack, what is your problem?

By Anonymous, at January 13, 2010 5:22 pm
websiteoutlook site was updated 14 days ago - before the poker ads. so ya, fail on your part!

By Anonymous, at January 13, 2010 5:24 pm
"websiteoutlook site was updated 14 days ago - before the poker ads. so ya, fail on your part!"

What are you, dense?

Buddy, that's exactly my point. RD added a way to make revenue; as in BEFORE the background ad, they were not making much at all.

By flapjack, at January 13, 2010 7:19 pm
"websiteoutlook site was updated 14 days ago - before the poker ads. so ya, fail on your part!"

What are you, dense?

Buddy, that's exactly my point. RD added a way to make revenue; as in BEFORE the background ad, they were not making much at all.

By flapjack, at January 13, 2010 7:19 pm
thanks for posting twice, ya silly goose. you said makes $25, not made. sorry pal, but you are in the wrong!

By Anonymous, at January 14, 2010 5:43 am
Jeez bunch of idiots posting on this thread.

By Greiffel, at March 02, 2010 5:26 pm